Improvement in fastening handles to hammers, axes



'A. A. GOUBERT. FASTENING HANDLES To HAMMERS, AXES, 39C. 370.182.573

Patented Sept. 26. 1876.

V of New York, State of New UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AUGUSTE A. 'GOUBERT, on NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN FASTENING HANDLES TO HAMMERS, AXES, &c.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 182,573, dated September 26, 1876; application filed Feburary 4, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AUeUsTE A. GoUBERT,

York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Fastening Handles to Hammers, Axes, 850., which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawing.

My invention consists in the method of securing the handle in a tool by means of the devices hereinafter described, and specifically pointed out in the claim.

In the drawing, Figure 1 shows the hammer with the handle driven in, and as it will Fig. 11 shows the mode of A is the hammer, B is the handle, and O is Reference to Fig. II will show the mode of putting them together.

The handle B is introduced into the eye of the hammerA from below. The gib O is then dropped in from the top, and the handle drawn back.

Now, if we strike some hard substance with the hammer, the blow will tend to make it go up the inclined plane next to it; but bearing against the shoulder of the gib O carries it forward, thereby drivin geffectually the wedgeshaped gib between the handle and the hammer.

Theoretically the incline on the hammer side should be more than that on the handle The cross-section of the gib C may have the shapes shown in Figs. 3, 4, and 5, or any other, to suit the shape of the hammer-eye.

I claim as my invention The gib O, in combination with the handle B, and the eye of a hammer, ax, or other tool, as and for the purpose herein set forth.

In the testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 31st day of January, 1876, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

AUG. A. GOUBERT.

Witnesses:

NAT. W. PRATT, GEO. T. COBB. 

